little soul

phobia. phobias. thalassophobia. arachnophobia. ornithophobia. agoraphobia. xenophobia. megalophobia. claustrophobia. no, not claustrophobia. that one's half Latin. phobia comes from Ancient Greek, you know?

So I've been kind of numbed out lately.

making my breakfast for tomorrow ahead of time, as I do, typically, often, no, sometimes, I disappeared into the silence. and it hit me. dark, grief, pain, worry, the weight. the overwhelming weight. the hopelessness. inescapable. the nonsense. the noise.

Whenever I tell people I have fainted before and will faint again if I am not careful, they get weirdly fascinated?

More times than I can count, I have looked over at my mother while we were watching a movie, singing together, or simply holding a conversation, and have seen her eyes just full of tears.

My summer travels completed, I come bearing a list.

It's a habit of mine to look up words I don't know, and I came across several unknowns today in an art gallery.

There's something about mystery novels.

Both my brother and I have fallen into the habit of writing down what we remember of our dreams when we wake up and while not every dream is remembered and not every dream is pleasant and worth remembering, there are more than enough that are absurdly com…

1] candid: an adjective meaning 'truthful, honest, open, sincere, impartial' candid comes from the Latin adjective candidus.

'My grandmother is dead.'

There's a monstrous bruise on the outside of my left thigh.